Yummy Maple Orange Sweet Potatoes & Carrots!

I found a recipe for this dish, gave it a few adjustments, and it made a wonderful side-dish! Give it a try:

-Two small sweet potatoes
-1/2 LB of carrots
-1 TBSP butter/margarine
-1/4 C Syrup(Maple would be best)
-1/4 C Orange Juice
-1/4 TSP Salt
-1/8 TSP White Pepper
-1/8 TSP Cinnamon(Use more if you really like cinnamon)





-Peel, wash and cut up sweet potatoes and put them in the crock pot.
-Add carrots to the crock pot(I used baby carrots but if you use whole carrots just chop them up).
-Melt 1tbsp of butter in a bowl. Stir in syrup, juice, salt, pepper and cinnamon to the butter.
-Pour the above mixture over the carrots & potatoes in the crock pot.
-Set crock pot to cook on high for 4 hours.
-Serves 2 people so double or triple up if you want more. You can also cook on low for 6-8 hours.

ENJOY!!!!

Latter Day Bride Now Has Casual Dresses!

I got an email today from Latter Day Bride (which is where I bought my wedding dress) and they now have a casual clothing line out! Check out some of these cute dresses!

Update

Ok i am finally going to put up a new post(I can't believe I haven't written since August). Here is a quick update on what we have been doing since then.

September 2009:
-Eric started his senior year of college with a nice hefty load of classes. But he made it through with flying colors!

October 2009:
-My sister got married on October 9th so Eric and I were in Washington for a few days! It was so much fun to see family and friends. Ashley's wedding was perfect and I am so glad I got to be there for all the festivities!
-My family came down to Utah for an open house for my sister and her husband so we got to spend a couple days with them in Northern Utah. I also got to have my little brother and sister stay at our place for a night. It was so much fun to just eat pizza and watch movies.
-We got a new couch! We started looking for a new couch and after a couple months we finally found the perfect one! It's a sage colored microfiber sectional and we could not be any happier with it.
-For Halloween we dressed up as "people who are obsessed with tanning". This included about 30 minutes of putting dark bronzer all over myself and Eric as well as wearing tanning goggles.
-Eric had his 26th Birthday!

November 2009:
-Eric was very very busy with school since the semester was coming to an end.
-I started going to some dance classes on nights Eric was at school late.
-I got really sick with a mix of a horrible sinus infection(that took 4 different kinds of antibiotics) and some awful virus that would not leave. So I was sick from about a little before Thanksgiving till just after Christmas. And all of this probably would have been avoided but the first doctor I went to for the sinus infection gave me some weak amoxicillan(spelling?) that did nothing and my body just got more and more sick and picked up new viruses. So it was a constant recurrence of getting new viruses once one would go away because my immune system was shot. So if I learned anything it's always demand strong antibiotics so your body can get healthy as quickly as possible and not get one new sickness after another.
-I was so sick on Thanksgiving I had Eric just go to his relatives alone so he could actually get some Thanksgiving dinner. He brought me some back :)

December 2009:
-Eric finished up finals and did great!
-We went to California for Christmas to be with Eric's family then up to Washington the day after Christmas to be with mine. It was a wonderful vacation and we got a lot of new things to take home!
-My dad got a kidney transplant while we were in Washington! Ill write about this in another post; it was a pretty good story.

January 2009:
-Eric started his final semester of school!
-I finally got full time at work with a raise and benefits!
-We had to buy a new car and we finally did...it's an silver Audi A6.
-We have so much time to spend together right now and I LOVE IT!!!!

February 2009:
-We finally got to spend our first Valentine's Day together. Eric has been gone every Valentine's Day since we met for a school competition thing and this year we got to be together!
-We took a trip to Zions's National Park over the 3 day weekend and had the most amazing time. That place is such a beautiful wonder of this world.

Charles At His Best

So Charles is just flat out weird sometimes. These are the hilarious positions that we often find him in...This first one we have named "Sexy Charles".

And NO we are not crazy people that only every talk/blog about their cat...haha...Charles is just hilarious!

Yummy Spinach Salad

So I try really hard to make sure that Eric and I have a salad everyday. You know, just to try and be healthy people and im pretty sure "greens" reduce your chance of getting cancer(a great perk). Anyways, I get so sick of all the regular salad dressings that you buy from the store so I have been experimenting and making delicious new salads for us. Here is one recipe that we both really like and if anyone has a great recipe...PLEASE let me know!

Spinach Leaves

1-2 cap fulls of olive oil

1 cap full of apple cider vinegar

Salt and pepper to taste

Raisins

A couple sprinkles of grated parmesean cheese

Etsy Favorites

I was browsing through ETSY this morning and found these great handmade items! They really do have the cutest jewelry sometimes.

A Year Already...

OK so i know that this post is like a month and a half past when it happened but Eric and I had our 1 year anniversary on June 13th! I really can't believe that I have been married to my sweet husband for a year already. The time goes so fast. Anyways, we went away for this weekend to a resort in the Ogden canyon. It was so beautiful being tucked away in the mountains for a couple days. But we did some hot-tubbin, a little driving around to check out the area and got all dressed up to go out to dinner. Oh yeah, so I did the very traditional thing of saving the top of the wedding cake and eating it on the first anniversary, and it actually worked. Our cake still tasted good after 1 whole year!!!! So if anyone needs tips on how to preserve cake I have all the secrets:) Eric and I also watched our wedding video and that was the most amazing thing. I love seeing/hearing what we said, what we did and most importantly watching all our facial reactions. It was like every sweet glance and kiss was captured on video and we have it forever! Sorry to go on and on but basically I absolutely love our wedding video! But here are some photos from our fun weekend together.

Happy Birthday!

Alisha is 23!It was my birthday on the 7th! Eric took me shopping so that was really fun. Then we went to Tucanos for Dinner. Neither of us have downed so much food in one sitting in quite some time but it was goooooooood!

Well my wonderful family gave me a huge thing of balloons, some beautiful flowers and lots of money! And I got a ton of cards from family and some more flowers from Eric! Oh yeah, my family sent me a Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory! It was Amazing!!! And when I woke up that morning I noticed that our porch step was all decorated with birthday wishes! Thanks everyone!

Lovin the Sun

Well a couple weeks ago Eric and I drove to southern California. And it only took like 9 hours each way! (I thought it would take a lot longer). Anways we had so much fun while down there and we actually got a chance to lay in the hot hot sun! But being that I haven't been in the sun in about 9 months I was blessed with a nice bright sun burn. So Eric got the wonderful job of lathering me up with aloe for a few days..haha.

Here are a few fun things we did:
Eric got to go shooting at the cabin and I enjoyed the evening boat ride!

We got to relaxPlay with puppies!Be girls!

And spend time with Family!

Reading is fun!

Well if anyone is looking for a good book to read I highly suggest the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It's a non-stop read...I finished it in a couple days. This is a fictional book about what life is like in the future of America.

READ ME!

Graduation

Well I did it...I am now officially a college graduate!!! And there I am ringing the "victory bell" on campus(I even waited in line to do that). It's a little weird thinking that I won't be going back to school in the fall but I think somehow I'll survive...haha. So if you don't know I attended Brigham Young University and got a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Advertising and a minor in Business Management. I absolutely loved my major and would recommend it to anyone.

(This is my group for the senior capstone project after out rockin presentation)

Anways, this was such a fun time and especially because I had my family here! We got to take my parents around BYU, Provo and of course Sub Zero Ice Cream

A Tribute to 8 Minute Abs

So Every now and then when i don't feel like doing crunches alone, I get on you tube and enjoy an abs session with "8 minute abs". Well, Eric decided he wanted to get in on this,which completely shocked me(he is always throwing me surprises:)). So we have started doing this together every night! 8 minute abs is so much fun!!! You get to work out with the video people who are all decked out in their royal blue spandex, have the best nineties hairstyles and always give you encouraging words such as "come on gang" "your doing great gang" and "now put your hands on your abdominals. You won't have to dig to far for long" . HaHa.
Just click on the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqrkGnkUWc

Me and my Homie Charlie

Charlie and I have a funny relationship. He tries to pretend that he hates my guts...but I know it's all a cover. Charles really loves me, he just hates when I look, touch, or talk to him. I posted this video to show a day in the life of me and Charlie. Enjoy.

The Cage

Last Friday my dance team performed at a Throwdown boxing event at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake. Eric got it all on tape so Watch the video to check it out!

Paint = Pretty House

So Eric and I live in a 2 bedroom duplex in Provo just north of campus. When we first moved in the walls were painted with one streaky coat of red paint. It was fun for a while but after finding time here and there we have managed to change the wall color for the better. Actually, I have give almost all the credit to Eric. He is a champ when it comes to painting!





Here are a few more pics of our place.

Our First Christmas

This year we went up to Washington to be with my family for about 5 days and then traveled down to California to spend a few days with Eric's family as well. It was crazy getting into WA because we ended up flying the day of a horrible snow storm. Our flight was delayed leaving Salt Lake because Seattle was not letting any flights in. But finally we got on our way. It took forever to land though because the pilot kept saying that the runway was "unsafe". Yeah scary. It was a very uneasy moment when they decided to land the plane and the runway was completely covered in snow. But thankfully we made it safe and just had to endure the two hour extended drive home due to the unpleasant weather conditions.

We spent Christmas Day in Washington and
woke up to tons of Santa gifts and stockings!

OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!














We had a WHITE CHRISTMAS!














We tried to make a snowman but the snow got
so cold that it was crunchy so Eric being Eric
had a great idea to just wet down the snow
with a "water bottle" to make it pac together.
HaHa...it ended up not working out so well.














The day after Christmas we left way early in the morning (4am) to fly to California. My poor parents had to drive us in to Seattle at that horrible hour :) So we also thought that flying so early would be smart so we wouldn't have to be stuck in long lines of holiday travel. Yeah, turns out everyone else had our same idea. The lines were so long inside(wrapped around several counters and extended so far we couldn't tell where the line ended) that we ended up waiting outside in the curb side check in for 45 minutes. Good thing we got there early.


(3 hours of sleep = picture above)

We had a great time in California. We got to see all of Eric's family and got a little bit of warmer weather as well as more Christmas! All of us went to see the movie Marley & Me which we will recommend seeing if you can handle a few tears. Oh yeah, we also saw Four Christmases when we were in WA. It was funny but certainly not what I expected.

So you are probably wondering about why Eric is next to this Pontiac Solstice. Well, get ready for a story. So Eric had an interview with the company Bovis Lend Lease for an internship this summer. The interview was in downtown L.A. in the morning of the day we were leaving to come back to Utah. We figured to rent a car to drive up to L.A. and then drop it off at the airport as we left. Turns out rental cars were really hard to come by. We finally had a place that had one car left. They told us that is was a two door pontiac. So of course we were thinking just a small compact car that would surely have a back seat. Well we go to pick up the car and they give us the Solstice. Ok this thing is tiny. There is the driver and passenger seat and that is it. No back seat to be found! I mean it was a very nice looking car but we had luggage to take with us. But looking at the car it appeared to have a large trunk so we figured things would be fine. So Later that night we pop the trunk only to find that the majority of the trunck is taken up with what I can only think are speakers. So we had a tiny freak out moment because we had 4 large suitcases/duffel bags to get in that car. So we were able to squeeze smaller bags into the trunk if we took things out of them and shoved them in every spot possible. Then(luckily I am short)we had to put one bag on the floor board where my feet should go and then I held onto another large duffel bag in my lap. This was such a sight. I had a limited view of anything and we drove the 45 minutes up to L.A. It was actually pretty hilarious and I can only imagine what the valet was thinking when we pulled up to park the car. Ha Ha. But i was able to get out and stretch my legs while exploring the city while Eric was in his interview. But we made it to the airport and had an easy travel home to Utah.

*Incase you were wondering Charles survived being at home for 10 days without us! We had people go over every couple days to make sure he was ok and had food but he was sooooo happy when we finally came home!